Summertime – Omar A.H.

[Marty75]

Love the way you played and sung this one @Omar.A.H. 😊😊😊😎

[Loraine]

I just learned this song, but I think the chords are a simpler version. 😄

[was-Dan]

That is a really nice job.

[Bill_Brown]

👏 👏 👏 💙

[Marquita]

Thanks for posting this! I love hearing different interpretations of classic songs!

You do very well!

[Omar-gigging-guitarist]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I haven’t been posting as much as before because I’m having issues with this new site vs the old site.

[bugmeist]

Super well done. Both your playing and your voice are extremely evocative.

[Omar-gigging-guitarist]

I am spending time this morning to thank all of our TAC members that take the time to listen to the “Play for us” postings and for all the encouraging comments, I truly appreciate it.

Omar

[Guitargeezer]

Nice guitar work and your baritone voice sounds great on this classic!

[Bill_Brown]

Excellent performance @Omar_A.H. 👏👏👏 Spectacular playing and vocals👍👍 Thanks for reposting😎

[SherryH]

Thank you for posting. Enjoyed both the playing and singing. You have a very nice voice.

[Omar-gigging-guitarist]

Again, many thanks for the encouraging comments from my fellow TAC members. 😎

[petelanger]

Nice! I remember this song so well because my sister played it frequently in the late ’60’s. She was about 14 when she started playing and this was prominently in her repertoire along with As Tears Go By, House of the Rising Son and Yellow Bird.

The song was written in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin.

It was famously recorded by Billy Holiday in 1936 and reached #12 on the pop charts.

Hundreds of artists have covered it besides the legendary Billy there’s Ella Fitzgerald w. Louis Armstrong, Sam Cooke, The Zombies, Billy Stewart, Janis Joplin, Willie Nelson, Al Green are some of most beloved covers.